Moscow’s forces have improved their defenses, artillery coordination and air support, setting up a campaign that could look very different from the war’s early days. Russia, learning from costly mistakes, shifts battlefield tactics:
June 18, 2023 at 4:36 PMA drone image of the destruction in Bakhmut, taken while embedded with the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian army, May 19, 2023.
Russia won ground early in the war with sheer firepower. Interviews with 17 Ukrainian soldiers, a Russian prisoner of war, officers, foreign fighters and Western officials, as well as a review of documents and videos, show that, in recent months, the Kremlin’s gains, especially in Bakhmut, have come in part because of a series of adaptations.
“They are trying to find rear command posts of companies, brigades, and destroy them at long range to disrupt communication between units as much as possible,” said Graf, a Ukrainian drone unit commander. Mostly neutered since the invasion, the Russian air force has adapted its tactics and munitions, including glide bombs, to attack Ukrainian forces without risking their aircraft.
The March mission report shared with the Times alluded to this type of enemy: “Assumed to be Wagner group,” the report read. “Evidence of being well-trained.But prowess in one area or during one mission has not yet translated widely. And U.S. officials say that while Russia has adapted its tactics, its troops overall are not growing more sophisticated.
Near the eastern Russian-occupied town of Svatove, Ruslan Zubariev, a Ukrainian soldier who goes by the call sign Predator, said the Russians used textbook tactics to try to break through his line of trenches in February. “They did everything perfectly,” he said. “But something didn’t work out for them. Not enough information, as always.”
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